Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)Movies

This raw documentary from Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) is both a celebration of the globe-trotting chef Anthony Bourdain and an unblinking look at the toll his addictions took on him and those who loved him. Bourdain's rise from unknown cook to celebrity chef, and famously “cool guy,” was peppered with drug and alcohol habits, as well as obsessive behavior. The doc suggests that his talent and his demons were interdependent while extolling and admiring its enigmatic subject.

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